Category: FAQs

Question: I wanted to buy a 512GB NVMe SSD and a 1TB Seagate BarraCuda 7200rpm HDD for my new computer but I remembered I have a 2TB USB 3.0 Segate…

Question: For the first time since I’ve owned a PC (30 years) I have experienced an undetected, uncorrected single-bit disk error. ?In a RAID array. The sequence of events was…

Question: Hear ye! Hear ye! My fellow nerds, gather ’round and I shall tell you a tale, a tale of frustration and confusion. A tale filled with fraught and…alright I’ll…

Question: For some reason, I am unable to partition my SSD. Disk Utility reports a small amount of disk space, but this is a known issue to do with local…

Question: im planning to buy this kind of ssd (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32952436302.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.780277f8ykhZh3&algo_pvid=31484315-da10-405f-8292-fe3696e45cb0&algo_expid=31484315-da10-405f-8292-fe3696e45cb0-18&btsid=14523651-c598-410a-92c4-d69199db28f5&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_1,searchweb201603_53 ), and the spec page of my laptop (asus s550ca) from the offical asus website says the it has 3gb…

Question: I am a little confused about this. I understand that hot swappable hard drives are considerably more expensive than a standard internal drive, but is that due to the…

Question: Thread says it all. I have an 8tb ive had for a while, you see them all the time for about $125 on sale. Thats tons cheaper than a…

Question: I know that a 12.5 mm high hard drive fits, but I can’t find any information about whether a 15 mm high hard drive fits. Western Digital offers a…

Question: I have a Mushkin Reactor 1TB SSD that was reportedly in great health, showing no indicators pointing to imminent failure (as reported by HDD Sentinel) that my PC would…

Question: I’m trying to recover some data off a crashed hard drive using Windows System Recovery. ?Startup Repair just hangs for days (yes, literally) with no disk activity. ?So, I’m…